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...being talked about in newspapers, on the air, at formal and informal campus conferences, and in the pulpit. Comment ranged from the 9th Annual Layman's Leadership Institute in Houston to the satirical TV show That Was the Week That Was to a good-humored cartoon by Bill Mauldin portraying an unusually precocious reader of the article-which of course was addressed to a considerably older age group...
High-Speed Tour. Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin asked permission to land his own plane on the ranch's landing strip. Permission granted. Scotty Reston of the New York Times called from Phoenix...
Could he come over? He could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
Then the surgeons remembered a recent report in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics on the use of a patient's own blood for transfusions. They decided that Mrs. Mauldin would be the perfect subject for such autotransfusions. Back in Denver early this month, she gave three pints in five days, on a low-salt but otherwise normal diet. "That's pretty fast," says Dr. William Bormes, "but we wanted the blood as fresh as possible." Only four days after her third "donation," Mrs. Mauldin went on the operating table. Dr. Bormes opened her chest, slipped a tiny, fingertip knife into...
With her rare blood, Patient Mauldin was a special case. But even for most patients, with common blood types, autotransfusion is the best possible source of blood. By far the safest thing for anybody to have flowing through his arteries and veins is his own blood. With it, there can be no mismatching, which carries a risk of serious or fatal illness. When an operation can be scheduled a few days to three weeks in advance, and the patient is not severely anemic or debilitated, he can usually serve as his own donor...